{"product_id":"9780062877185","title":"Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eGerhardt, Michael J.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA brilliant and novel examination of\u003cbr\u003ehow Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all but a couple of other presidents, and more wisdom than every one of them. In this original, insightful book, Michael Gerhardt explains how this came to be.\" –H.W. Brands,\u003cem\u003e Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1849, when Abraham Lincoln\u003cbr\u003ereturned to Springfield, Illinois, after two seemingly uninspiring years in the\u003cbr\u003eU.S. House of Representatives, his political career appeared all but finished.\u003cbr\u003eHis sense of failure was so great that friends worried about his sanity. Yet\u003cbr\u003ewithin a decade, Lincoln would reenter politics, become a leader of the\u003cbr\u003eRepublican Party, win the 1860 presidential election, and keep America together\u003cbr\u003eduring its most perilous period. What accounted for the turnaround?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Michael J. Gerhardt\u003cbr\u003ereveals, Lincoln’s reemergence followed the same path he had taken before, in\u003cbr\u003ewhich he read voraciously and learned from the successes, failures, oratory,\u003cbr\u003eand political maneuvering of a surprisingly diverse handful of men, some of\u003cbr\u003ewhom he had never met but others of whom he knew intimately—Henry Clay, Andrew\u003cbr\u003eJackson, Zachary Taylor, John Todd Stuart, and Orville Browning. From their\u003cbr\u003eexperiences and his own, Lincoln learned valuable lessons on leadership,\u003cbr\u003emastering party politics, campaigning, conventions, understanding and using\u003cbr\u003eexecutive power, managing a cabinet, speechwriting and oratory, and—what would\u003cbr\u003ebecome his most enduring legacy—developing policies and rhetoric to match a\u003cbr\u003econstitutional vision that spoke to the monumental challenges of his time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout these mentors,\u003cbr\u003eAbraham Lincoln would likely have remained a small-town lawyer—and without\u003cbr\u003eLincoln, the United States as we know it may not have survived. This book tells\u003cbr\u003ethe unique story of how Lincoln emerged from obscurity and learned how to lead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46830219297023,"sku":"9780062877185","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780062877185_s600x595.jpg?v=1774892343","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780062877185","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}